The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Localities A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Localities
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Localities A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Localities
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Localities Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Localities
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 Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Localities "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Localities
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Localities The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Localities
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Localities The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Localities
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Localities "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Localities
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Localities Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Localities
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little 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 The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Localities
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Localities What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Localities
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Localities It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Localities