The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Issues There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Issues
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Issues The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Issues
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Issues "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Issues
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 A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Issues We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Issues
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Issues A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Issues
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Issues I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Issues
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Issues "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Issues
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Issues Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Issues
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Issues A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "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 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Issues
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Issues I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Issues
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Issues The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Issues
