"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Bechyne If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Bechyne
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "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) Bechyne If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Bechyne
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Bechyne "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Bechyne
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 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Bechyne Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Bechyne
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Bechyne The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bechyne
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner 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 Bechyne In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Bechyne
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Bechyne Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables 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 Bechyne
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Bechyne You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Bechyne
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Bechyne 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 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Bechyne
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell 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've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Bechyne You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Bechyne
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Bechyne I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Bechyne
