The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "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 is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, I Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz 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 "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) 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 I
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone 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 blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell What's new? Most of my wife. I Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken I
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 No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I
