A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Spinster: A bachelor's wife. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Arts and Entertainment "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Arts and Entertainment
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Arts and Entertainment Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin 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 Arts and Entertainment
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Arts and Entertainment
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Arts and Entertainment
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Arts and Entertainment Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Arts and Entertainment We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Arts and Entertainment
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Arts and Entertainment Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Arts and Entertainment
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Arts and Entertainment Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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 Arts and Entertainment Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Arts and Entertainment
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole 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 "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Arts and Entertainment A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Arts and Entertainment He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius 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 The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
