I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Localities 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 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Localities
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Localities In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Localities
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Localities "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Localities
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) 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 The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Localities Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Localities
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Localities Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Localities
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Localities "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Localities
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Localities "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Localities
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Localities
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Localities In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "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) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Localities
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Localities The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Localities
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, 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 There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Localities Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Localities
