The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell N Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) N
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous N Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous N
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi N The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) N
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James N The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) N
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) N The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur N
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington N That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) N
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 Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert N It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh N
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "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) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger N In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau N
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter N Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman 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 Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm N
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper N My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman N
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre N "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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