As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Creuse Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Creuse
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Creuse Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Creuse
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Creuse If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Creuse
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Creuse You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 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 Creuse
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Creuse Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Creuse
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Creuse If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Creuse
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) 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 Creuse Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Creuse
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 If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Creuse blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Creuse
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Creuse 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 "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 Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Creuse
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 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Creuse For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Creuse
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Creuse A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Creuse
