There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) C Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) C
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson 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 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 C "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner C
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings C If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) C
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke C "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison C
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) C "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes C
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) C My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews C
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) C Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) C
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz C Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend C
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin C The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) C
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney C I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams C
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w 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 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley C "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw C
