"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Lida "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Lida
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Lida I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Lida
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Lida "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Lida
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Lida Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Lida
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler 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 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Lida "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Lida
"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) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry 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 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Lida "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Lida
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Lida The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Lida
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Lida I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Lida
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Lida If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Lida
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Lida The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Lida
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Lida The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lida
