I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman History 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 A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus History
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy History Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams History
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain History Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw History
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa History God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins History
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence History "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) 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 An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry History
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler History "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster History
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician History This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen History
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford History If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying History
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen History They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken History
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost History Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 History
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith What's new? Most of my wife. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich History It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 History
