"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Events Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Events
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Events blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Events
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Events The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Events
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Events "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Events
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Events "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Events
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Events "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Events
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Events blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Events
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Events >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Events
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Events Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Events
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Events I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Events
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Events The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Events
