All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Cher "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Cher
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cher There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Cher
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Cher Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Cher
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Cher Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Cher
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Cher Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands 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 Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Cher
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Cher "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Cher
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Cher Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Cher
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau 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 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Cher He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Cher
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Cher "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Cher
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Cher Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Cher
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Cher History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Cher
