Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
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-- David Deckert Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Personal Pages Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Personal Pages
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Personal Pages You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Personal Pages
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Personal Pages "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Personal Pages
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Personal Pages Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Personal Pages
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Personal Pages
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Personal Pages blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Personal Pages
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Personal Pages The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Personal Pages
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Personal Pages The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Personal Pages
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Personal Pages I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Personal Pages
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Personal Pages One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Personal Pages
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George 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 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Personal Pages There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Personal Pages
