People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "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) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Computers and Internet "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Computers and Internet
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Computers and Internet "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Computers and Internet
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Computers and Internet Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Computers and Internet
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Computers and Internet
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "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) 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 For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Computers and Internet Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Computers and Internet
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. 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 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Computers and Internet The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Computers and Internet
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Computers and Internet That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Computers and Internet
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "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) Computers and Internet All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Computers and Internet
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Computers and Internet The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Computers and Internet
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Computers and Internet Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Computers and Internet 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 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Computers and Internet
