It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "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 Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell 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, N Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous N
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau N Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald N
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous N "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei N
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand 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 asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) N Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O N
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers N "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s 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 One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford N
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, Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna N "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back N
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot N The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw N
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) N Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard N
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign N "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) N
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) N Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner N
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke N Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday N
