"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "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) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Localities Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Localities
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "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) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Localities Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Localities
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Localities And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Localities
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Localities Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Localities
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Localities They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Localities I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Localities
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Localities "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Localities
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings 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 "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) Localities Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Localities
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 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Localities It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Localities
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Localities Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Localities
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner 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 "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 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Localities blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Localities
