"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein By Locality Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) By Locality
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) By Locality When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) By Locality
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) By Locality "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) By Locality
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford By Locality Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis By Locality
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 By Locality Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Locality
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates By Locality Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams What's new? Most of my wife. I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh By Locality
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige By Locality "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) By Locality
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) By Locality Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte By Locality
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Think off-center." (George Carlin) By Locality What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) By Locality
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson By Locality It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar By Locality
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov By Locality Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 By Locality
