Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Kindergartens He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Kindergartens
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Kindergartens Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Kindergartens
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Kindergartens 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 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Kindergartens
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Kindergartens A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Kindergartens
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Kindergartens "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Kindergartens
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Kindergartens The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Kindergartens
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Kindergartens "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Kindergartens
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Kindergartens "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Kindergartens
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Kindergartens Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Kindergartens
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Kindergartens They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Kindergartens
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Kindergartens "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Kindergartens
