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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Agencies Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Agencies
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Agencies "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Agencies
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting My other wife is beautiful. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Agencies Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Agencies
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Agencies Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Agencies
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Agencies Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Agencies
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Agencies Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Agencies
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) 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 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Agencies "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Agencies
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Agencies The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Agencies
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Agencies The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Agencies
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Agencies It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince 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 Agencies
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Agencies The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Agencies
