"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Laws This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Laws
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Laws "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Laws
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Laws "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Laws
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Laws It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laws
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Laws Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Laws
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? 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 "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Laws "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) 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 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Laws
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Laws Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Laws
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Laws Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laws
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Laws "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laws
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Laws "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Laws
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Laws If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Laws
