I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Corse-du-Sud Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Corse-du-Sud
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Corse-du-Sud "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Corse-du-Sud
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Corse-du-Sud A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Corse-du-Sud
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Corse-du-Sud 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 How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Corse-du-Sud
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Corse-du-Sud Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Corse-du-Sud
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Corse-du-Sud Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Corse-du-Sud
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Corse-du-Sud "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Corse-du-Sud
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Corse-du-Sud To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Corse-du-Sud
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Corse-du-Sud "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Corse-du-Sud
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Corse-du-Sud Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Corse-du-Sud
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Corse-du-Sud Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Corse-du-Sud
