"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) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin By Locality 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 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein By Locality
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol By Locality I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford By Locality
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) 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 You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard By Locality 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 Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. By Locality
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) By Locality Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) By Locality
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "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) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley By Locality Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) By Locality
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) By Locality When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde By Locality
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By Locality "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 We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa By Locality
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit By Locality "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? By Locality
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko By Locality Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) By Locality
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "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) By Locality Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy By Locality
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi By Locality A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins By Locality
