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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Saone-et-Loire A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Saone-et-Loire
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Saone-et-Loire To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Saone-et-Loire
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Saone-et-Loire There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Saone-et-Loire
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Saone-et-Loire A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Saone-et-Loire
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Saone-et-Loire It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Saone-et-Loire
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Saone-et-Loire The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Saone-et-Loire
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Saone-et-Loire Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Saone-et-Loire
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Saone-et-Loire When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Saone-et-Loire
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Saone-et-Loire The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Saone-et-Loire
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Saone-et-Loire "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Saone-et-Loire
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Saone-et-Loire All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Saone-et-Loire
