I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Localities Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Localities
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Localities Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Localities
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Localities 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 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Localities
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Localities They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Localities
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Localities "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Localities
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Localities I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Localities
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Localities All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Localities Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Localities
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Localities 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 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Localities
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Localities "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Localities
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Localities Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities
