Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Architecture Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Architecture
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Architecture The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Architecture
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Architecture The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Architecture
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Architecture Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Architecture
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 Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Architecture Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Architecture
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Architecture Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Architecture
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Architecture "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Architecture
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan 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 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Architecture Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Architecture
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Architecture "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Architecture
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck 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, You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Architecture When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller 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 Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Architecture
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Architecture Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Architecture
