Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Localities I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Localities
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Localities I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Localities
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Localities Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Localities
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Localities I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills 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 Localities
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Localities "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Localities
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Localities Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Localities
"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) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Localities Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Localities
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Localities "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Localities
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Localities Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Localities
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Localities What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Localities
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Spinster: A bachelor's wife. 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 Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Localities "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Localities
