We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Computers "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Computers
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Computers Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. 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 I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Computers
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Computers Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Computers
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Computers "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Computers
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Computers What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Computers
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Computers "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Computers
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 yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Computers Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Computers
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Computers Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Computers
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Computers One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Computers
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Computers "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Computers
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Computers Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence 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 Computers
