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 Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Ports "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Ports
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Ports "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Ports
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Ports We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Ports
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Ports "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Ports
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Ports When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Ports
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Ports 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 I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Ports
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Ports Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Ports
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Ports Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Ports
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Ports Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Ports
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Ports "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Ports
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Ports Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Ports
