When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Nyrsko "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Nyrsko
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Nyrsko Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Nyrsko
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Nyrsko "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Nyrsko
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Nyrsko Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Nyrsko
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Nyrsko Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Nyrsko
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Nyrsko "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Nyrsko
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Nyrsko A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Nyrsko
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Nyrsko Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Nyrsko
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Nyrsko 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 Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting 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 Nyrsko
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Nyrsko The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Nyrsko
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Nyrsko Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Nyrsko
