The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Champagne-Ardenne Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Champagne-Ardenne
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Champagne-Ardenne I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Champagne-Ardenne
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "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) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Champagne-Ardenne 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 Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Champagne-Ardenne
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz 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 Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Champagne-Ardenne I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Champagne-Ardenne
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Champagne-Ardenne Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Champagne-Ardenne
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Champagne-Ardenne "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Champagne-Ardenne
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Champagne-Ardenne If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Champagne-Ardenne
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Champagne-Ardenne Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Champagne-Ardenne
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "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) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Champagne-Ardenne Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Champagne-Ardenne
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Champagne-Ardenne We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Champagne-Ardenne
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Champagne-Ardenne The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Champagne-Ardenne
