I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Indre-et-Loire University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Indre-et-Loire
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Indre-et-Loire A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) 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 Indre-et-Loire
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Indre-et-Loire "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) 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 The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Indre-et-Loire
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Indre-et-Loire The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop 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 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Indre-et-Loire
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Indre-et-Loire "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Indre-et-Loire
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Indre-et-Loire The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Indre-et-Loire
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Indre-et-Loire "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Indre-et-Loire
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s 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 Indre-et-Loire "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "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) Indre-et-Loire
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Indre-et-Loire I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Indre-et-Loire
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Indre-et-Loire Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Indre-et-Loire
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Indre-et-Loire He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Indre-et-Loire
