We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni L "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) L
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and L "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce L
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, "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh L "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, 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 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries L
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) L There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson L
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) L When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W L
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing L "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) L
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle L "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg L
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) L There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "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.) L
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper L "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) L
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins L Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw L
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde L Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous L
