Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Dog Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Dog
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Dog "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Dog
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Dog A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Dog
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Dog Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Dog
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Dog I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Dog
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Dog Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Dog
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Dog "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Dog
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Dog Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Dog
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dog Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Dog
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Dog There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Dog
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Dog Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Dog
