"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Q I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Q
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Q Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Q
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Q Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Q
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Q Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Q
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Q Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Q
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Q "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Q
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Q "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Q
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Q Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Q
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Q The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Q
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Q If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Q
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Q Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Q
