Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Lovech "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lovech
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Lovech "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Lovech
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Lovech Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "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 If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Lovech
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Lovech A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Lovech
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "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) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Lovech 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 great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Lovech
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Lovech If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Lovech
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Lovech Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Lovech
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Lovech There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Lovech
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Lovech "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Lovech
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Lovech I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Lovech
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "... 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) Lovech If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Lovech
