"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Franche-Comte Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Franche-Comte
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Franche-Comte Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Franche-Comte
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Franche-Comte "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Franche-Comte
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Franche-Comte There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Franche-Comte
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Franche-Comte "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Franche-Comte
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Franche-Comte These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Franche-Comte
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) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Franche-Comte 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 either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Franche-Comte
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Franche-Comte "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Franche-Comte
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Franche-Comte Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Franche-Comte
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Franche-Comte No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Franche-Comte
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Franche-Comte There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Franche-Comte
