My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "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) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Muonio "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Muonio
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Muonio Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Muonio
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington 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 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Muonio "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Muonio
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Muonio Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Muonio
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "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) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Muonio The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Muonio
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Muonio 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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Muonio
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "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) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Muonio We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Muonio
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Muonio Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Muonio
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Muonio Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Muonio
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Muonio A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Muonio
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "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) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Muonio "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 Muonio
