Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II T I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper T
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) T The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana T
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. T There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner T
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson T History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) T
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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 Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi T "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and T
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) T If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') 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 T
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) T "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden T
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All T "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner T
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA T In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) T
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes T Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker T
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing T The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "'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) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) T
